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Log scale... You appear to get 6.5x the annual safe limit in 500 days. It would be an unacceptable hazards to be exposed to that much radiation on earth.
by etaioinshrdlu 8y ago
Log scale... You appear to get 6.5x the annual safe limit in 500 days. It would be an unacceptable hazards to be exposed to that much radiation on earth.
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- lostlogin 8y agoHow do you calculate 6.5x? It might be my inability to read log graphs but is the DOE limit 20mSv and the 500 day dose 350mSv?
- etaioinshrdlu 8y agoYou're right, I was lazy at reading it too, and it acutally is more like 16x.
- arcticfox 8y agoIs that the equivalent of 6.5 years of normal aging-related cancer risk (spread over ~1.35 actual years), or does risk scale non-linearly? If it's a normal +5 bonus years of risk, it seems like something that would be acceptable for such a voyage. But you'd be a bit hard-pressed to find something worth it on Earth, it would have to be something truly spectacular.
- ummonk 8y agoWait, is that all? The safe limit is likely quite conservative, so 5x the annual safe limit in a year doesn't seem like a big deal.
- etaioinshrdlu 8y agoWhether it is a big deal or not, I also misread the graph and it is more like 16x...